The Parliament Justice Select Committee has just released its report on the Treaty Principle Bill and recommended it does not proceed further due to 90% of submissions opposing it.
The policy which was orchestrated by the ACT party was to take the bill to parliament but instead compromised with National to take it to a select committee.
The bill received over 300,000 submissions and requests for 16,000 oral submissions.
In the end, the committee heard 529 submitters over 80 hours in the space of five weeks.
Written submissions were 90% opposed, 8% supportive and 2% unstated. Oral submissions were 85% opposed, 10% supportive and 5% unstated.
In the committee’s 45-page report, some of the themes raised by those opposed were the inconsistency of the bill with the Treaty/te Tiriti, the negative effect on the Crown-Māori relationship, rejection of the concept of Treaty principles and the negative effect of the bill on social cohesion.
However, themes across supporters were promoting social cohesion and lack of clarity and certainty about the principles.
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